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U.S. Senate Building Evacuated in CW Scare
A nerve agent scare yesterday in the Russell Senate Office Building forced the evacuation of 200 people to a Capitol Hill parking garage, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Feb. 7). A security sensor detected nerve agent at around 6:45 p.m. Additional tests showed the substance to be harmless, according to Capitol Police. “Test results have been cleared and all test results are negative, so that's very good news,” said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. “We had this warning system work,” said Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), one of nine senators sent to the garage. “People in the building followed the directions promptly. There was no panic, no running, no upset or anything like that.” Schneider said it was not yet known what caused the false alarm, but that it could have been something along the lines of a cleaning substance. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said one sensor caused the alert. “Everybody is safe. This was a false alarm. I'm sure tomorrow there will be a lot of questions about whether we had to be quarantined, and the answer to that is yes,” he said (Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Feb, 9).
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